I think its more of a 'dumbing down' for the general public. Personally, I prefer the 1024 nomenclature to be called megabyte (or gigabyte, etc) rather than mebibytes, etc...
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Scott Holder <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the old Marketing Mega/Gigabyte versus "real" mega/gigabyte > thing. A DVD is 4,699,979,766 bytes. Marketing People divide that by > 1000 to get "4.7gb", which they like because it's bigger. > > But, if you take a "real" megabyte/gigabyte as the computer calls it, > 1024 bytes in a kb, 1024 kb in a megabyte, etc, it's actually 4.4gb > usable data. > > Hard Drives have had the same confusion for a long time now. If you buy > a 1TB drive, it won't actually format to 1TB. > > Some sources (like wikipedia) have started calling the 1024 versions > mebibytes, gibibytes, etc. but I've always thought it sounded a little > silly. > > Scott > > WhyOSX wrote: > > 4.7, or others are different... > > > > > >> Or, rather than worrying about it, you could just burn it to a DVD. > >> That has 4.4gb of space. ;) > >> > >> - Alex > >> > >> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Doug McNutt <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> At 21:19 -0500 12/2/09, Wolf wrote: > >>> standard CD-Rs hold a just a bit more than 702 megs, but most programs > >>> > >> reserve the last few megabytes. > >> > >>> i have never used Toast, but i do know alot of (Windows) burning apps > offer > >>> > >> an option called "overburn" that lets you use the last little bit of the > >> disc. > >> > >>> no special type of CD is needed > >>> > >>> > >> -- > >> ----- > >> You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > >> The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > >> netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> To leave this group, send email to > [email protected]<vintage-macs%[email protected]> > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > >> > >> Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > >> > > > > > > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to > [email protected]<vintage-macs%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
